Kocak, Burak http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7307-396X
Ates, Ece
Durmaz, Emine Sebnem
Ulusan, Melis Baykara
Kilickesmez, Ozgur
Article History
Received: 13 October 2018
Revised: 19 December 2018
Accepted: 11 January 2019
First Online: 12 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Burak Kocak, MD.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors (Burak Kocak, MD) has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because all patients’ data included in this study are publicly and freely available for scientific purposes (The Cancer Genome Atlas-Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma [TCGA-KIRC]).
: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because all patients’ data included in this study are publicly and freely available for scientific purposes (The Cancer Genome Atlas-Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma [TCGA-KIRC]).
: The authors acknowledge that they have previously used this public database (The Cancer Genome Atlas-Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma [TCGA-KIRC]) in different context.
: • retrospective• experimental• performed using a publicly and freely available database